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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Emma Tall Makes a Statement about 2025 (Probably) · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:31
  What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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  Just made that opening this morning.
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  Pretty happy with it.
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  I think it's kind of funny, but anyway.
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  We are here with our new
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  daily show lunch with the Clydesdale.
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  This is just an all topic
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  kind of thing that we're
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  going to start doing just a
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  way to kind of on my lunch hour,
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  hop in here,
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  see my friends like Corey I
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  see over there I see Jody Lynn I see ACR.
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  Awesome stuff so.
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  I'm going to kick off today
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  with last night was another Bears loss.
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  Eight in a row now.
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  The Bears have suffered eight in a row.
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  Oh, my gosh.
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  I don't know how I'm doing this,
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  but there's a picture going
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  around on the Internet of Caleb Williams,
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  and it depicts exactly,
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  exactly how I feel as a Bears fan.
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  And it looks like this.
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  This was right after Caleb
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  had scrambled a lot, jumped in the air,
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  threw the ball back across the field.
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  And while midair got just
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  T-boned by a defensive end
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  right in the gut.
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  And when he got to the sidelines,
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  he couldn't even sit up straight.
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  It was so bad.
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  uh this kid first rookie
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  you're getting beat up like
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  he's getting beat up and to
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  keep getting up and giving
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  a hundred and ten percent
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  um I I gotta respect that
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  immensely um so so stoked
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  uh for that but um but yeah
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  I hope he just survives the
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  rest of the season uh it
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  was an embarrassment we
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  scored a touchdown that was uh just
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  ripped off the board because
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  the fullback that came into
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  the game didn't report as
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  eligible so that got taken
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  out um crazy crazy stuff we
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  just can't get out of our
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  own way with chicago bears
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  it is just horrendous um so
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  with that the bears are the
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  bears we're gonna be
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  looking for a new coach
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  And hopefully that can help
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  what's going on.
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  Judy, nice to see you.
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  CK Kevin, nice to see you as well.
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  Yeah,
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  Corey did awesome at Legends this
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  weekend.
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  So pumped to see someone I
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  consider to be a really
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  good friend out there
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  competing at the elite
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  level of the Masters world.
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  And as he reminds me all the time,
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  he did beat Jason Grubb in a workout,
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  and I see he has mentioned
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  that in the chat.
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  So we just want to congratulate him.
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  And I think the coolest thing is he learns,
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  right?
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  I think he only has like two
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  more years in this division
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  then he gets to age up and
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  then he can make a true run
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  for like maybe a crossfit
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  games appearance that'd be
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  super awesome so um and he
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  can correct me he's in the
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  he's in the chat but I I
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  think he has like two more
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  years in this division and
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  then he ages up as he said
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  it is his win for the weekend yes awesome
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  so um before we get into too
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  much of the new stuff I I
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  did want to correct a
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  couple things that have
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  happened in the last couple
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  days um on sunday night
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  crossfit talk we talked
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  about the if-three uh and I
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  made a statement in that um
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  in that show that the
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  if-three the streaming
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  number seemed to be less
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  than what brian friend got
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  when he was streaming
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  different competitions around europe um
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  In all in to let you know
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  where I got that from is I
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  peeked in a couple times I
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  looked at the live streaming numbers.
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  They didn't look awesome,
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  but I was sent a text last
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  night with updated
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  streaming numbers for if three,
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  and they actually were
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  really really good.
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  Um,
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  Day one had fifty four thousand streams.
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  Day two had thirty two
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  thousand streams and day
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  three had thirty seven thousand streams.
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  And it seems like they seem
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  to peak out more in the, in I have three,
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  the team like country versus country.
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  Sweden versus Norway was a
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  big rivalry according to,
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  and this all came from Patrick Clark,
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  who was there at the event.
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  That's when the stream
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  numbers seem to peak out is
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  during those kind of
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  rivalry country versus
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  country things at the I have three.
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  So so maybe I have three is
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  a good starting point with
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  some of this CrossFit stuff
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  internationally as they are attempting.
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  And I've got a lot of comments about this.
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  They are not yet part of the
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  Olympic group.
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  They are just trying to hold
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  the different standards as
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  an organization to
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  eventually get functional
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  fitness as an Olympic sport.
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  um and so that is their goal
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  is to make it an olympic
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  sport uh where it can grow
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  um internationally that way
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  so um just to update those
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  numbers day one fifty four
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  thousand day two thirty two
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  thousand day three thirty
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  seven thousand streams uh for that so
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  I did want to correct that
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  from Sunday night show
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  where we talked about the
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  IF-III a little bit and the
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  leaderboards and stuff like that.
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  So just wanted to make sure
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  I corrected all of that.
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  Aaron Frazier asks,
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  do they have the same
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  events at every comp?
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  So it's not necessarily the same events,
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  but it is the structure.
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  Like they have a monostructural event.
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  Now that monostructural
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  event may change from
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  competition to competition.
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  Then they have a couplet.
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  And I don't know what they all are exactly,
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  but there are...
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  There is an event that is
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  labeled as this and it is at every event,
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  but the event itself can
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  change as long as it meets
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  the requirements for
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  whatever that topic is,
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  if it makes sense.
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  No, Judy, this is not Will Morad's thing.
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  The IF-III has been around
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  for probably five or six years now.
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  Gretchen Kittleberger and
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  some people started this a
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  little while back.
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  And it was just a way to get
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  functional fitness into the
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  Olympic Games.
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  And so it has to be
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  structured in a way that is less...
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  unknown and unknowable um
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  they could not use the
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  crossfit name back then
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  when they started it so
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  they came up with the
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  international functional
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  fitness federation I think
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  is what it is and then um
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  and then they've created
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  this and they've they're
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  starting to like get into
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  colleges and universities
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  here in the states but it's
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  really big internationally
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  some countries recognize it as
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  As a national sport.
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  So Norway is one of those.
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  And you'll see at these events,
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  Norway takes a lot of athletes.
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  Past world champions.
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  And the athletes actually
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  get a stipend just like we
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  would here for an Olympic sport.
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  Yes, Jason CrossFit, Jason CF,
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  it's not CrossFit,
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  Jason CF actually covered
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  the event and did some pre
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  and post stuff for that as well.
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  So Jason's awesome.
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  Go check his channel out whenever you,
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  whenever you need to.
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  Ken Walters.
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  What's up, buddy?
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  CrossFit in its current
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  state is just too hard for
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  a common viewer to
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  understand as an Olympic
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  sport and rules around it.
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  Right.
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  And there has to be some
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  uniformity to it to make it
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  as an Olympic sport.
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  So that's what this group is doing.
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  And it appears like it is
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  really growing well internationally,
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  in Europe especially,
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  where countries have
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  recognized it as a national
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  sport and giving a stipend
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  to the athletes.
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  So I glitched for a minute,
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  says Jay Birch.
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  So all the readings on my side are good,
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  so hopefully it stays that way.
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  But yeah,
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  they did broadcast all three days.
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  They're still available out
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  on YouTube if you want to
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  go take a look at it.
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  I'm sure they explain things
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  better than I could as they
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  are involved with it day to
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  day over there.
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  So hopefully that goes well for them.
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  The next thing I want to
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  talk about yesterday,
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  I talked a little bit about, um, uh,
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  Ken says, uh,
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  but isn't the known and
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  unknowable and constantly varied removed.
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  It is, um,
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  it is almost completely in this
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  event as it is structured.
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  Um,
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  And I do believe the
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  athletes know what the
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  workouts are for each
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  category before they go to the event.
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  So, yeah, it is completely removed.
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  And I think it has to be
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  that way for the Olympics.
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  So, okay.
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  So yesterday I talked a
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  little bit about the
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  college football event.
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  world and the transfer
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  portal and how I was upset
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  that my my penn state team
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  finally makes it to the
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  college football playoffs
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  and one of the key members
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  of their offense is going
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  into the transfer portal
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  and therefore could not
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  compete with the team
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  throughout the college
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  football playoffs I learned
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  later that just because you
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  enter the portal doesn't
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  mean you have to leave your
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  current team you just you
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  can stay with them until
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  you sign with a new team however
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  In this case,
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  Penn State has a rule that if
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  you enter the transfer portal,
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  you are off the team.
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  James Franklin was going to
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  make an exception for Bo Pribula,
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  the backup quarterback who
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  is entering the transfer portal.
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  But when they tried it out,
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  they tried to do practice
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  and allow him to look at
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  other options around the
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  world for him to be a
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  starter and quarterback at
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  another location.
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  There was too much
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  distraction and they both
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  felt like it would be
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  better if he left the team
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  now and wasn't that
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  distraction while looking
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  for a new school to attend.
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  It's such a shame.
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  I wish they would move the
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  transfer portal window and
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  not let it start until
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  after the college football
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  playoff is done.
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  It is crazy.
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  It's crazy that this overlap is happening.
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  Marshall had to withdraw
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  from their bowl game
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  because so many kids
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  entered the transfer portal
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  because of the coaching
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  change that they didn't
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  even have enough players or
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  a quarterback to attend the bowl game.
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  If college for this is the
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  most important time right the playoffs,
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  and you're letting players
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  leave through the portal
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  and teams don't even have
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  what got them to the
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  playoffs to use during the
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  playoffs because of the way it works,
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  and they really need to
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  like change those dates
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  somehow because it is.
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  It is ridiculous,
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  and I know that it's
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  affecting my team and not
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  many of the others,
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  but as a Penn State fan,
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  we have been waiting to get
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  into the college football
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  playoff for years.
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  We have been the fifth team
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  in a four-team playoffs
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  twice in the last six or seven years,
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  and we're finally in the
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  college football playoff,
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  and we don't even get to
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  take a guy who contributed
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  almost six hundred yards of offense away.
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  uh to our team this year uh
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  because he's entered the
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  transfer portal and that
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  really sucks just point out
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  uh uh aaron friger says I
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  don't like the transfer
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  portal uh I don't it's fine
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  for what it is it it's just
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  where we are in in this age
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  but it should not open
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  until the season is
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  complete that is my biggest
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  grape with it right now
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  I do think too many people
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  are entering it and not
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  enough players are finding new homes.
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  You're learning that, you know,
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  five hundred kids go into the portal,
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  but only four hundred kids
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  find a new home and the
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  hundred just are out of luck.
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  And I don't think they're
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  aware of that enough of
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  those things before
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  entering or before leaving
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  the school they are at.
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  Ken Walter said they should
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  never took out the one year
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  set out transfer role when
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  my son decommitted from the
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  Gophers before freshman year, he was fine,
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  but he waited a year.
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  It would have,
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  would have had to sit out one full year.
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  I, I know it's,
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  it's just becoming free
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  agency like it is in the NFL.
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  So there it is.
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  uh and aaron yes caleb
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  williams now has been
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  sacked more than any bears
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  quarterback in history he
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  is still I think twenty
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  sacks away from to david
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  carr's record uh with the
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  texans uh let's hope he
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  doesn't reach that that's a
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  record I do not want him to
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  set in his rookie season
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  But he's been sacked fifty
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  eight or nine times.
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  I'm trying to remember how
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  many times he got sacked last night.
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  And David Carr was seventy two,
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  seventy two times.
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  I think I saw yesterday on
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  one of the shows.
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  So, yeah,
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  he's still a little bit away from that.
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  Let's hope he doesn't get there, please.
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  Lord,
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  I wasn't sure he was going to survive
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  last night.
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  Corey Leonard said,
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  I think he's talking about
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  college football is
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  straight up semi-pro league
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  with homework involved now.
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  I'm not even sure people are
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  still required to do the homework.
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  I know some schools,
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  they do care about the academics,
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  but it's going to get to a
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  point where why?
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  Why?
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  I don't even know why.
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  I guess we're just putting
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  it on the backs of these
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  colleges that people have
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  been fans of for years.
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  But really,
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  it's just a semi-pro league
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  just with the cloak of college football.
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  Because a lot of these kids
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  are there to make the NFL,
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  not to get a degree anymore.
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  So there's that.
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  Some news that came in last night,
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  the barbell spin reported
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  that Emma Tall in a podcast
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  that was released today has
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  announced that she probably,
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  probably will not do the
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  twenty twenty five CrossFit game season.
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  And when asked further what
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  the reasoning behind that was,
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  she stated it was a
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  reaction CrossFit had to the P.F.A.A.
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  Which was surprised.
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  I was surprised to hear that
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  was the reason.
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  I kind of anticipated some European...
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  um,
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  athletes sitting out of the CrossFit
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  game season, uh,
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  because of what happened to
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  Lazar and what happened at
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  the games last year,
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  Emma was one of those people who left, uh,
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  after that incident happened.
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  Um,
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  I'm surprised that she stated it was a
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  reaction to the PFAA.
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  Um, but yeah,
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  I guess that shows us that
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  there are athletes that are
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  in step with what the PFAA
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  wants and what they want to do,
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  and they are willing to sit
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  out the season, probably.
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  So it's going to be
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  interesting to see who
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  follows suit now that,
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  because initially we just
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  had Emma McQuaid as the
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  only one who definitely
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  said she was doing it.
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  And now we're going to get
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  other athletes making these
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  announcements.
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  But, you know,
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  Pat Vellner and her have
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  just said most likely or
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  probably there's no
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  definitiveness to any of
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  what they're saying.
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  And I get it.
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  There's not a lot of details
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  on anything for next season,
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  whether it be the CrossFit
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  game season or the WFP or,
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  but Europe does have a lot of,
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  bigger events with good
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  prize purse where you can
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  actually kind of make a
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  living bouncing from country to country.
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  And that's where I believe
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  that the European athletes,
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  we may have more people
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  sitting out the season from
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  Europe than we do, uh, any,
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  anywhere here in this, in the States.
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  But, um,
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  but it's going to be
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  interesting to see because
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  now people are going to
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  start being asked about
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  that and they're going to
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  start answering and we're
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  going to get a list of
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  who's in and who's out.
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  And I think it'll give us a
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  better tell as to what the
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  upcoming season is going to look like.
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  Corey,
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  did anyone tell her the PFA has no
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  real power and most likely never would?
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  And if not, should I?
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  I have my thoughts on the PFA.
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  I've talked about it a lot.
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  I don't know how they got
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  appointed to be the
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  representative of the athletes.
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  I think they just stepped in
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  and said they would be.
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  And that's kind of been my question.
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  I don't have any problem
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  with an organization
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  representing the athletes.
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  I think that is fine.
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  But I just don't know where
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  the PFAA came from and what
• 19:05
  gave them the right to be
• 19:06
  the representative and how
• 19:09
  were they voted in?
• 19:10
  How were they picked?
• 19:12
  How were they given the
• 19:15
  right to be the representative?
• 19:20
  And so that's where I fall on this.
• 19:24
  I just don't get it.
• 19:27
  I'm a big fan of Brent Fikowski.
• 19:29
  I think he's a good dude.
• 19:31
  And I think his ideas are fine.
• 19:33
  But I think that maybe they
• 19:35
  took a step too far to
• 19:36
  think that they were.
• 19:38
  And now after the Lazar incident,
• 19:40
  they're trying to make sure
• 19:42
  that they are.
• 19:43
  And now that we're hearing
• 19:44
  that they have a vote,
• 19:45
  they have some things in
• 19:48
  place to put together.
• 19:51
  a board and executive board
• 19:54
  and things like that.
• 19:55
  But I think it all seems to
• 19:57
  be backwards to me.
• 20:01
  And maybe the, and I don't know,
• 20:02
  I've not talked to enough athlete.
• 20:03
  Maybe the athletes have picked them.
• 20:07
  But there's just some clues
• 20:08
  to me that show me that maybe it's not.
• 20:11
  And when you look at a board
• 20:13
  that was nine members and,
• 20:16
  all this has happened and
• 20:18
  now you have a new election
• 20:20
  for the new board and you
• 20:21
  go from nine to six were
• 20:23
  the choices limited because
• 20:26
  the six that ran all six
• 20:28
  got in so only six ran and
• 20:31
  you go from a board of nine
• 20:32
  to six that's not a good
• 20:34
  trend if you're trying to
• 20:35
  be the representative of
• 20:36
  the athletes you would think
• 20:38
  that as you're gaining
• 20:41
  momentum and power or whatever it is,
• 20:46
  or representation,
• 20:48
  that that board would grow
• 20:50
  or at least stay at nine.
• 20:54
  But again,
• 20:55
  I don't know enough from the
• 20:56
  athletes to know that they were voted in.
• 20:58
  Do the athletes feel that
• 20:59
  they are being represented by them?
• 21:03
  I just don't know.
• 21:10
  Aaron Frazier says wherever
• 21:11
  they decide to compete,
• 21:12
  will the standards for safety be better?
• 21:15
  No.
• 21:15
  Will the PFA have any power there?
• 21:16
  No.
• 21:16
  Gosh, I have thoughts there too,
• 21:20
  because I don't think that
• 21:21
  the PFAA has ever made a
• 21:23
  complaint about safety.
• 21:25
  Um, they have made complaints about, um,
• 21:28
  bar height, ring height, um, how many, um,
• 21:33
  how many risers you can use underneath,
• 21:36
  uh, the rig.
• 21:37
  Um,
• 21:39
  they had a list of ten
• 21:40
  complaints that they gave
• 21:41
  to CrossFit two years ago.
• 21:44
  CrossFit came back and did
• 21:45
  eight of them and said why
• 21:47
  they couldn't do the other two.
• 21:49
  So it's not – when they keep
• 21:51
  saying that CrossFit has
• 21:52
  never listened to them,
• 21:53
  that's a little bit of a
• 21:54
  misleading statement because they have.
• 22:00
  So, again,
• 22:03
  I don't think they've ever made safety –
• 22:08
  demands until after all this
• 22:10
  has happened uh james w the
• 22:13
  pfa stepped in because no
• 22:14
  one else has no one has the
• 22:16
  joy has to join the pfa if
• 22:18
  they want to be their own
• 22:19
  advocate it's not a union okay um
• 22:30
  James,
• 22:30
  the PFA has only been around for a
• 22:32
  couple of years and it's
• 22:32
  subject to incredible scrutiny.
• 22:34
  Yet the CrossFit Games have
• 22:35
  been around nearly twenty years.
• 22:37
  They're so incredibly
• 22:38
  unorganized and lack of professionalism.
• 22:40
  I cannot disagree with that statement.
• 22:44
  Not at all.
• 22:44
  I,
• 22:45
  I have been critical of the CrossFit
• 22:47
  games as well, that we, they,
• 22:50
  they cannot get their shit together.
• 22:51
  And we talked on Sunday night.
• 22:53
  If you want to go back and
• 22:54
  listen to that with the WFP
• 22:56
  for the first time in my
• 22:59
  fandom of being a CrossFit tour,
• 23:02
  CrossFitter, CrossFit athlete, whatever.
• 23:04
  That was two thousand eleven
• 23:06
  where I started CrossFit
• 23:07
  that we actually have a
• 23:08
  season structure that makes sense.
• 23:11
  And it's not from the CrossFit games.
• 23:12
  It's from the WFP.
• 23:15
  Um, so I can't agree.
• 23:19
  I cannot agree more that
• 23:20
  there's lack of
• 23:22
  organization and
• 23:23
  professionalism that leads
• 23:24
  to the CrossFit games open, uh,
• 23:26
  that athletes should have representation.
• 23:32
  Um, Corey says, James, there's been a CAC.
• 23:35
  Well, see, uh,
• 23:38
  I guess well before the PFA
• 23:40
  the PFA asked for them to
• 23:41
  be done away with then when
• 23:42
  the PFA started making
• 23:43
  ridiculous demands Yeah And
• 23:50
  I agree with you James here
• 23:52
  it is different the CAC is
• 23:53
  internal PFA is independent
• 23:56
  and that it's I'd have to
• 24:00
  see how the this the CAC
• 24:02
  was developed and what the
• 24:04
  rules behind that were and
• 24:08
  but I agree with you.
• 24:09
  It is better to have an
• 24:10
  independent representative
• 24:11
  than someone internal.
• 24:13
  Um, if the CAC is internal, um,
• 24:20
  So anyway,
• 24:21
  I didn't mean to go down that road,
• 24:23
  but we're going to be going
• 24:24
  down that road because more
• 24:25
  athletes are going to
• 24:26
  declare which way they're going,
• 24:29
  which side they stand on.
• 24:31
  And I hate that there's
• 24:32
  division in CrossFit
• 24:33
  because I love this sport so much,
• 24:35
  and I don't think we can
• 24:37
  survive too much division.
• 24:44
  Okay.
• 24:45
  And that is one thing that I
• 24:47
  have said about the PFAA.
• 24:49
  They do not cover all athletes.
• 24:50
  They just cover what they
• 24:52
  deem to be the elite
• 24:53
  athletes of the group,
• 24:55
  which is CrossFit Games
• 24:57
  athletes or semifinal
• 25:00
  one-person-out athletes.
• 25:07
  So I didn't mean to go down that road.
• 25:11
  We have CrossFit shows for that.
• 25:13
  This is just like,
• 25:15
  appetizers of crossfit with
• 25:17
  some other stuff around the
• 25:18
  world but um but yeah and
• 25:22
  I'm sure that we're going
• 25:23
  to be talking about this
• 25:24
  sunday night on the
• 25:25
  crossfit talk show uh the
• 25:26
  round table on thursday
• 25:27
  we'll probably talk about
• 25:28
  this uh as emma is just
• 25:30
  probably the first in line
• 25:31
  that will start uh making
• 25:33
  this announcement and we'll
• 25:34
  talk about those things
• 25:37
  And the nice thing about the
• 25:38
  CrossFit Talk Show is we
• 25:39
  have athletes on that show
• 25:41
  that can give their
• 25:44
  perspective because I am not an athlete.
• 25:46
  They are,
• 25:47
  and they have a different
• 25:48
  perspective than I do for sure.
• 25:53
  The last thing I had on my
• 25:54
  list is for those of you who –
• 26:03
  I think it was a year ago,
• 26:04
  the CrossFit Games came out
• 26:05
  with a new logo.
• 26:11
  And that was that it was the
• 26:14
  new logo with the Shield CrossFit Games.
• 26:18
  And we really, really attacked that.
• 26:23
  And that it looked like a
• 26:24
  kindergartner kind of put that together.
• 26:26
  But I saw a logo that got
• 26:30
  redone this week.
• 26:32
  Um,
• 26:33
  that just blew me away about how bad
• 26:37
  these people are that get
• 26:38
  hired to create logos for, for companies.
• 26:42
  Uh, and so WWE is moving raw,
• 26:49
  I think from USA network to
• 26:53
  Netflix and that's
• 26:55
  happening in a week or two.
• 26:57
  Um,
• 26:58
  And so they developed a new
• 27:00
  logo to go from USA to Netflix.
• 27:07
  And here is the logo that
• 27:08
  they came up with.
• 27:10
  So I'm going to blow this up here.
• 27:16
  So the Raw logo above has
• 27:19
  been the Raw logo for a while.
• 27:21
  But they put live on Netflix below it.
• 27:25
  And I swear to God that
• 27:27
  these are just templated
• 27:29
  things that you can get on Canva.
• 27:31
  And someone just dropped the live picture,
• 27:35
  a text box of on and the
• 27:37
  Netflix picture right below raw.
• 27:39
  It could not have been more
• 27:43
  than like a fifteen second
• 27:46
  job to make this logo.
• 27:50
  And we use Canva to make all
• 27:51
  of our thumbnails, all of our backgrounds,
• 27:53
  all of our stuff.
• 27:54
  Like, what the hell?
• 27:57
  How do I get this job?
• 28:01
  But my gosh, that is, like,
• 28:05
  I'm blown away.
• 28:06
  I'm blown away that someone
• 28:07
  got paid to make this logo.
• 28:11
  it is ridiculous you take
• 28:13
  the existing logo and you
• 28:15
  put live on netflix below
• 28:16
  it and now you have a new
• 28:18
  logo and that's that's your
• 28:19
  job uh corey says the w is
• 28:25
  actually a straight up
• 28:26
  upside down m yeah I'm not
• 28:28
  even getting into the
• 28:29
  original logo that was made
• 28:31
  that that's pretty
• 28:32
  simplistic as well um but
• 28:35
  that is the logo that's
• 28:36
  been there's for a while this raw
• 28:39
  But the live on Netflix below here,
• 28:42
  this live, I have used it.
• 28:44
  It is a templated picture in
• 28:46
  Canva and you can get the
• 28:48
  Netflix logo there too.
• 28:50
  And then you just put a text
• 28:52
  box of on in between the
• 28:53
  two and you've got a logo.
• 28:57
  What the hell?
• 28:59
  Like I, oh my gosh.
• 29:02
  And I thought the CrossFit
• 29:03
  Games logo was bad.
• 29:08
  So anyway, yeah,
• 29:10
  just something that hit me
• 29:12
  that I wanted to talk about
• 29:14
  and vent about, I guess, on here.
• 29:16
  So what is for lunch?
• 29:20
  Gosh,
• 29:23
  I have some chicken pad thai that I
• 29:26
  need to heat up.
• 29:27
  I think that's what I'm having today.
• 29:33
  Ken Walters is having ribeye,
• 29:36
  sweet potatoes, and farro.
• 29:42
  um clock was asking what was
• 29:44
  the statement that um and I
• 29:47
  think he got the answer
• 29:50
  she's probably not doing
• 29:51
  the open that is correct
• 29:55
  and aaron fisher I do agree
• 29:57
  we are all athletes but
• 29:58
  some of us are at a level
• 29:59
  where we could actually
• 30:00
  compete at the games uh and
• 30:03
  other of us are just dreaming that
• 30:06
  maybe in another life.
• 30:08
  Uh, and I am in, and I am that, uh,
• 30:10
  dreaming in another life, uh,
• 30:13
  where Carolyn Prevo has
• 30:14
  been there three times.
• 30:15
  Jamie Latimer has competed
• 30:17
  at the masters games.
• 30:19
  Uh, I have not, uh, uh,
• 30:30
  Ken Walters,
• 30:30
  I'm envious how technology
• 30:32
  would have saved me days, months,
• 30:33
  years of work during my career.
• 30:36
  If you can't succeed now,
• 30:37
  you have zero shot.
• 30:41
  Correct.
• 30:47
  Corey Leonard said on the raw logo,
• 30:49
  here's something even better to consider.
• 30:53
  This is the one they went with.
• 30:54
  They had options and this is
• 30:55
  the direction they chose.
• 30:58
  I know, I know.
• 31:03
  Holly,
• 31:04
  how many meetings and emails were
• 31:05
  there to okay that?
• 31:08
  Amen, sister.
• 31:09
  Amen.
• 31:10
  God, I hate meetings.
• 31:12
  I hate meetings so bad.
• 31:13
  So many of them are such a waste.
• 31:16
  They could have been an
• 31:16
  email and my life is full
• 31:19
  of useless meetings and I
• 31:23
  try to avoid them at all costs.
• 31:25
  And if I'm ever put in a
• 31:26
  leadership role and when I
• 31:27
  am put in a leadership role,
• 31:30
  I minimize meetings and
• 31:31
  they are usually fifteen
• 31:33
  minutes tops because let's
• 31:35
  cut the BS and just get through it.
• 31:41
  This meeting could have been
• 31:42
  a fist fight or a wrestling match.
• 31:44
  Just saying, Corey.
• 31:47
  Got to go with the subject
• 31:48
  you're dealing with here.
• 31:51
  Ken Walters, man,
• 31:51
  I saw your back squat the other day.
• 31:54
  Man, nice mobility.
• 31:56
  Good hip.
• 31:57
  Man, you were down there deep.
• 32:00
  That was cool to watch the other day.
• 32:01
  So how'd that thousand pound challenge go?
• 32:12
  um and then this pharaoh I
• 32:17
  don't even know what
• 32:18
  pharaoh is jay birch says
• 32:23
  remind me what you do for
• 32:24
  the state of ohio so my
• 32:28
  current job so what I did
• 32:30
  for most of my career while
• 32:31
  there is I was ahead I was
• 32:33
  the head of their training department
• 32:36
  I trained trainers to go out
• 32:39
  and train on different
• 32:41
  program aspects around the state.
• 32:45
  I took a step back from that in
• 32:53
  just wanted to reduce my
• 32:54
  travel down some things like that.
• 32:55
  And I am now, uh, I'm a tester.
• 33:00
  It's the best way to put it.
• 33:02
  When we make changes to our system, uh,
• 33:04
  I am the guy with the program knowledge,
• 33:07
  uh,
• 33:07
  because I've trained so many different
• 33:08
  aspects of it that I, uh,
• 33:13
  I train, because I did all that,
• 33:16
  I test the system to make
• 33:18
  sure it works correctly
• 33:20
  before it goes live.
• 33:21
  So in the testing environment,
• 33:23
  I go in and I run the
• 33:25
  system through everything
• 33:26
  to make sure nothing is broken.
• 33:28
  And then I report what is broken.
• 33:30
  And then I monitor the fixes.
• 33:32
  And then once it's fixed,
• 33:34
  then I give it the okay
• 33:35
  that they can release it
• 33:36
  into the production environment.
• 33:41
  So.
• 33:46
  Pharaoh is like a bigger
• 33:48
  rice grain-esque grain, I think,
• 33:50
  but with a sweeter taste
• 33:52
  and a texture close to a noodle.
• 33:58
  I might have to give that a shot.
• 34:00
  Sounds good.
• 34:03
  I know Holly works for state
• 34:05
  government as well.
• 34:06
  So hooray, state government.
• 34:10
  And Jay Birch says he's coming.
• 34:11
  I think he's coming for Ken
• 34:13
  when he gets his rack done.
• 34:16
  Gosh, I love back squatting.
• 34:18
  That is my jam.
• 34:21
  My jam.
• 34:27
  And so when I, so this was bench, bench,
• 34:36
  back squat, and deadlift.
• 34:37
  Deadlift.
• 34:39
  Nice.
• 34:40
  He hit a thousand pounds.
• 34:42
  Exactly.
• 34:42
  Two seventy five bench three
• 34:44
  twenty back squat four or five deadlift.
• 34:46
  All good.
• 34:47
  But deadlift got no ripped
• 34:49
  as we had a brain fart.
• 34:50
  Judge said good lift on deadlift.
• 34:52
  I dropped it and didn't
• 34:53
  control on the way down.
• 34:55
  Redoing Saturday.
• 35:00
  Deadlift is my weak spot.
• 35:04
  I have squatted almost five.
• 35:09
  Uh, my,
• 35:10
  my best back squat just a couple of
• 35:12
  years ago was four eighty.
• 35:15
  Um,
• 35:16
  but my deadlift is so bad because of my
• 35:18
  back.
• 35:19
  Um,
• 35:21
  a four or five deadlift would be a
• 35:23
  struggle for me right now.
• 35:27
  Hell, anytime.
• 35:28
  And then the bench I'm okay with.
• 35:32
  Um, it's,
• 35:35
  I,
• 35:36
  my goal was to CrossFit total a thousand,
• 35:39
  uh, with the strict press.
• 35:42
  Um, my strict pass is two,
• 35:45
  so that takes a lot off my bench.
• 35:47
  Uh,
• 35:47
  and then it's all about the deadlift
• 35:49
  and what I can get in that day.
• 35:51
  Um, so yeah.
• 35:59
  Uh, I, yeah, I think I'd love to,
• 36:03
  to achieve that goal again
• 36:05
  and hopefully I can get there soon,
• 36:06
  but to be able to a thousand pound,
• 36:08
  the CrossFit total, uh,
• 36:10
  was something the bench
• 36:12
  helps me out a lot in the,
• 36:13
  in the regular thousand with rogue.
• 36:16
  Um, but yeah, my deadlift is so, so weak.
• 36:22
  Um, but anyway,
• 36:26
  Well,
• 36:26
  that's all I have on my lineup for today.
• 36:29
  If you guys don't have anything to add, um,
• 36:33
  we'll call it a day.
• 36:35
  It's been awesome having
• 36:36
  lunch with you guys.
• 36:38
  Um, love learning about you guys.
• 36:40
  Yesterday we learned about Holly and, uh,
• 36:44
  Jay Birch's postgraduate
• 36:46
  degree doctorates.
• 36:48
  Today we learned about Ken's beast mode,
• 36:52
  thousand pounds.
• 36:55
  Kenneth, yes,
• 36:56
  I've watched the Reacher trailer.
• 36:58
  It looks really good.
• 37:01
  I'm excited for that.
• 37:02
  I finished so many shows in
• 37:04
  this last week that over the holidays,
• 37:07
  I got to find something to watch.
• 37:09
  I finished a lioness season two.
• 37:11
  I finished shrinking season two.
• 37:13
  Maybe we'll talk about that
• 37:14
  a little bit tomorrow.
• 37:17
  I have some thoughts on those.
• 37:20
  And tomorrow we will learn
• 37:24
  about Corey's mom.
• 37:26
  Oh, speaking of tomorrow,
• 37:27
  tomorrow is my wife's birthday.
• 37:30
  And tonight I am taking her
• 37:31
  out for one of our favorite
• 37:34
  restaurants in Delaware, Ohio,
• 37:36
  is having a cocktail,
• 37:40
  a holiday cocktail tasting.
• 37:42
  And so that is one of her
• 37:44
  big birthday gifts for the week.
• 37:47
  And that is we're going to
• 37:48
  go up there for a course meal.
• 37:50
  With each course,
• 37:51
  we get a holiday cocktail tasting,
• 37:54
  which is interesting since
• 37:55
  I have quit drinking this year.
• 37:57
  Um,
• 37:57
  but I can be a designated driver and
• 37:59
  she can enjoy, uh, but it is, uh,
• 38:02
  it's going to be fun.
• 38:03
  It is not Thurman's Judy.
• 38:05
  It is, uh, the backstretch,
• 38:07
  which is a really nice, uh,
• 38:12
  It looks like a dive,
• 38:13
  but it's a really nice
• 38:16
  chef-run kitchen where the
• 38:18
  food is exceptional.
• 38:19
  You just wouldn't ever think
• 38:21
  of it being that way.
• 38:23
  And Backstretch is one of our favorites.
• 38:26
  What I love is as a side,
• 38:29
  a garnish on your plate,
• 38:31
  they always give you a deviled egg.
• 38:33
  And I love deviled eggs.
• 38:35
  Instead of a pickle or something like that,
• 38:38
  it's so good.
• 38:42
  But yeah, they make amazing food.
• 38:44
  And the menu is already pre-done.
• 38:48
  You just show up, you sit down,
• 38:49
  and they bring you the courses.
• 38:51
  The main course is Steak Oscar,
• 38:54
  which is steak with Bearnaise sauce,
• 38:56
  crab meat, and asparagus.
• 39:00
  So super stoked about that.
• 39:02
  But yeah,
• 39:03
  with every course we get a
• 39:04
  holiday cocktail to taste
• 39:07
  and we're going with two friends.
• 39:11
  So we're going to have a
• 39:11
  great time tonight for her birthday.
• 39:13
  Tomorrow is her birthday.
• 39:14
  So we'll be celebrating that tomorrow,
• 39:16
  but she's working for sure.
• 39:20
  But yeah,
• 39:21
  so stoked to be able to spend the
• 39:23
  night with her tonight and
• 39:24
  do all that and do
• 39:25
  something fun outside the
• 39:26
  boxes that we normally do.
• 39:28
  Ken,
• 39:28
  I know you're saying Hyde Park in
• 39:30
  Columbus, Seafood Tower, phenomenal.
• 39:34
  So I am actually allergic to shrimp.
• 39:36
  So I don't get to take part
• 39:37
  in all the fun seafood stuff.
• 39:39
  And I've heard that Hyde Park is amazing.
• 39:45
  I have not been.
• 39:46
  I've been to Mitchell's here in town.
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  And Mitchell's has a lot of
• 39:51
  really nice high-end restaurants.
• 39:53
  The Ocean Club, which is seafood,
• 39:56
  of course.
• 39:58
  Marcella's,
• 40:00
  which is an Italian small plate
• 40:03
  food joint.
• 40:05
  They have Cap City Diner,
• 40:07
  which is diner fare done at
• 40:09
  a higher level.
• 40:10
  And I take a lot of people
• 40:12
  to that when they come into town.
• 40:14
  But I've not been to Hyde Park.
• 40:15
  So that might be something
• 40:17
  we have to do in the coming years.
• 40:26
  Jay Birch says Pharaoh is a
• 40:28
  gambling game played in Tombstone.
• 40:30
  Well, there you go.
• 40:33
  That doesn't sound like you eat something.
• 40:38
  Judy Reed, who is a fellow Colombian,
• 40:41
  we love Cap City.
• 40:42
  I love Cap City.
• 40:45
  Cap City is just an awesome little place.
• 40:49
  It's not really little,
• 40:50
  but it's not pretentious
• 40:52
  for being higher-end food,
• 40:54
  and I love that.
• 40:56
  And I will tell Mrs.
• 40:57
  Clydesdale happy birthday from everyone.
• 41:01
  That is awesome.
• 41:03
  I don't know if I've ever
• 41:04
  told you guys this, but there,
• 41:05
  there's a judge, uh,
• 41:06
  that is at every event.
• 41:08
  And he's, he's from,
• 41:09
  I believe he's from France.
• 41:11
  And every time he sees me at a competition,
• 41:14
  he calls me Clyde.
• 41:16
  Um,
• 41:16
  like my first name is Clyde and the
• 41:18
  name of this is because my name is Clyde.
• 41:21
  Um, and it just cracks me up every time.
• 41:23
  And I love that he, I just love it.
• 41:25
  So I don't ever correct it.
• 41:27
  I just go, uh, I go with it, but, um,
• 41:32
  but yeah.
• 41:35
  every everywhere I go and I
• 41:36
  see him he's like hey clyde
• 41:37
  what's up um so there it is
• 41:41
  um it cracks me up uh corey
• 41:43
  says happy birthday lady
• 41:44
  clydesdale I will tell her
• 41:46
  that I'm changing your name
• 41:50
  on my phone now says corey
• 41:51
  there you go clyde switzer
• 41:56
  I'm actually clyde bixby if
• 41:59
  anybody knows that reference
• 42:04
  I think he does think my
• 42:05
  last name is Dale.
• 42:07
  Like my name is Clyde Dale.
• 42:14
  Got to run.
• 42:15
  Have a great day, Clyde and everyone.
• 42:16
  Yeah, I got to run too.
• 42:17
  But yeah, Clyde Dale, that's my name.
• 42:22
  It's my moniker.
• 42:23
  Anyway, with that,
• 42:25
  I'll let you guys all go back.
• 42:27
  Lunch hour is over.
• 42:29
  We'll be back tomorrow.
• 42:31
  And again, we'll be doing these daily,
• 42:33
  mostly until we get to the
• 42:35
  first of the year.
• 42:36
  Then it'll be daily after that.
• 42:38
  Just got a few commitments
• 42:39
  we got to get through at
• 42:40
  the end of the year,
• 42:40
  beginning of January.
• 42:42
  And then we'll be doing these daily.
• 42:43
  But thank you, everybody,
• 42:44
  for being here and hanging out.
• 42:45
  It's always fun hanging out
• 42:46
  with this crew.
• 42:49
  And we'll see everybody next
• 42:50
  time on Lunch.
• 42:52
  with the Clydesdale.
• 42:53
  Bye guys.